not buying it - week 6

clothing
-sewed button back on jaden's dress to make it wearable again
-patched a play dress we borrowed from a friend

food
-eating lots of dandelions
-made yogurt from our own goat milk
-roasted a chicken (from our broilers) and made 2 meals from it using only items in the pantry
-sowed oats

household
-reusing plastic bags for trash bags

utilities
-diligently shutting off power strips each night for computer/dsl and tv/dvd player (this is especially important right now while we are incubating eggs and raising chicks with grow lights which sucks the electricity)
-making sure lights are off when we are not in the room

gifts
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exercise/self improvement
-knife throwing
-hooping
-writing in a new journal that i purchased a while back
-soaking in waldorf philosophy

homestead
-hatched out chicks!
-brought home irises, asian lilies and asters from a friend's house to start a new flower garden
-marked off area for temporary sheep pasture (still needs to be hotwired)

education
-borrowing waldorf education curriculums to get ideas for teaching jaden
-borrowed earthways from library to get ideas
-watching muzzy french dvd's and cd-roms (level I & II) borrowed from library
-made play dough with old white flour and iodized salt (that we will never use to eat), kool-aid and food dye for coloring instead of buying some

weaknesses
-got lazy about checking due dates on items and had 40 cent fine at library...this happens much more than i'd like to admit

purging
-lousy in this area but have plans to work on 2 problem areas in house this week and as time permits